Events
* April 27 – Futurist poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issues the manifesto ''Contro Venezia passatista'' ("Against Past-loving Venice") in the Piazza San Marco. * Robert Delaunay marries Sonia Terk. * Bronze sculptor Robert Kionsek joins the Berlin workshop of Ferdinand Preiss to form the PK firm; the two men combine their specialties to produce sculptures in bronze and ivory. * Czechs, Czech art historian Antonin Matějček uses the term ''Expressionism'', in opposition to impressionism. * Russian composer Alexander Scriabin writes ''Prometheus: The Poem of Fire'', Op. 60, a symphonic work for piano, orchestra, optional choir, and ''clavier à lumières'' or "Chromola" (a color organ invented by Preston Millar). * A replica of Michelangelo's statue of ''David (Michelangelo), David'' is installed on the Piazza della Signoria in Florence (where the original stood from 1504 to 1873).Exhibitions
*March 18 – May 1 – Société des Artistes Indépendants, Salon des Indépendants: Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier and Robert Delaunay are shown together in Room 18. Metzinger exhibits ''Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire'', considered by Apollinaire to be the first cubist portrait. *July 15 – October 9 – First International Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf (Kunstpalast), organized by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler. *October 1 – November 8 – Salon d'Automne: Jean Metzinger, Henri Le Fauconnier and Fernand Léger exhibit in Room VIII. Following this salon Metzinger writes his important ''Note sur la peinture'' article (published in ''Pan'' (Paris), October–November 1910), depicting the new art movement of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, noting that these artists (himself included) "discarded traditional perspective and granted themselves the liberty of moving around objects." This is the Cubist concept of "mobile perspective" that would tend towards the representation of the "total image" (an object seen from various view-points simultaneously). *November 8 – January 15, 1911 – ''Manet and the Post-Impressionists'' at the Grafton Galleries in London, organized by Roger Fry, introduces the term Post-Impressionism.Works
* Henry Bacon and Daniel Chester French **James Oglethorpe Monument **Statue of Samuel Spencer *Umberto Boccioni – ''The City Rises'' * Hanns Bolz – '':File:Bildnis Alfred Flechtheim.jpg, Portrait of Alfred Flechtheim'' * Pierre Bonnard – ''Girl with Parrot'' * Joachim-Raphaël Boronali (pseudonym of a donkey, Lola) – '':fr:Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique, Et le soleil s'endormit sur l'Adriatique'' * Georges Braque – '':File:Violin and Candlestick.jpg, Violin and Candlestick'' * Henri-Edmond Cross – ''Cypresses at Cagnes'' * Salvador Dalí (age 6) – ''Landscape Near Figueras'' * Lyonel Feininger – ''Straße im Dämmern'' * Albert Gleizes ** ''L'Arbre, The Tree (Gleizes), L'Arbre (The Tree)'' ** ''La Femme aux Phlox (Gleizes), La Femme aux Phlox'' * John William Godward, J. W. Godward ** '':File:A Cool Retreat.jpg, A Cool Retreat'' ** ''Noon Day Rest'' ** ''Reverie'' (first version) ** ''Sappho'' * Erich Heckel **Births
January to June
* January 6 – Wright Morris, Americans, American novelist, photographer, and essayist (d. 1998 in art, 1998). * January 22 – Joy Adamson, Austria-Kenyan painter and conservationist (d. 1980 in art, 1980). * January 29 – Colin Middleton, Ireland, Irish artist (d. 1983 in art, 1983). * February 20 – Julian Trevelyan, English people, English printmaker (d. 1988 in art, 1988) * March 10 – David Rose (animator), David Rose, American animator (d. 2006 in art, 2006). * March 18 – Leonard Bocour, paint-maker, painter (d. 1993 in art, 1993). * March 31 – Edward Seago, English painter (d. 1974 in art, 1974). * April 12 – Gillo Dorfles, Italians, Italian art critic, painter, philosopher and poet (d. 2018 in art, 2018). * April 24 – Fuller Potter, American abstract expressionism, Abstract expressionist artist (d. 1990 in art, 1990). * April 29 – Edward Wesson, English watercolour artist (d. 1983 in art, 1983). * May 7 – Robert Darwin, English painter and Rector of the Royal College of Art (d. 1974 in art, 1974) * May 23 ** Hugh Casson, British people, British architect, interior designer, artist, writer and broadcaster (d. 1999 in art, 1999). ** Franz Kline, painter (d. 1962 in art, 1962). * June 6 – Hélène de Beauvoir, French painter (d. 2001 in art, 2001). * June 8 ** C. C. Beck, American cartoonist and comic book artist (d. 1989 in art, 1989). ** Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003 in art, 2003). * June 17 – Raymond Poïvet, French cartoonist (d. 1999 in art, 1999).July to December
* 14 July – William Hanna, American cartoonist (d. 2001 in art, 2001). * 22 July – Antonio Rodríguez Luna, Spanish painter (d. 1985 in art, 1985). * 30 July – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born American photographer (d. 2003 in art, 2003). * 1 August ** James Henry Govier, English painter (d. 1974 in art, 1974). ** Gerda Taro, born Gerta Pohorylle, German-born war photographer (k. 1937 in art, 1937). * 19 August – Quentin Bell, English art historian and author (d. 1996 in art, 1996). * 25 August – Dorothea Tanning, American painter (d. 2012 in art, 2012). * 28 August – Morris Graves, American painter and printmaker (d. 2001 in art, 2001). * 3 September – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress and New York State Council on the Arts member (d. 2007 in art, 2007). * 7 October – Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American, art collector, philanthropist and chairman of Philadelphia Museum of Art (d. 1986 in art, 1986). * 29 October – Aurélie Nemours, French painter (d. 2005 in art, 2005). * 28 November – Garrett Eckbo, American landscape architect (d. 2000 in art, 2000). * 2 December – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (d. 1991 in art, 1991). * 8 December - Constance Howard (artist), Constance Howard, English textile artist (d. 2000 in art, 2000). * December – Tullio Crali, Montenegrin-born Futurist painter (d. 2000).Deaths
* February 14 – John Macallan Swan, English painter and sculptor (b. 1846 in art, 1846) * March 11 – Willis E. Davis (painter), Willis E. Davis, American landscape painter (b. 1855 in art, 1855; suicide at sea) * March 21 – Nadar (photographer), Nadar, French photographer and caricaturist (b. 1820 in art, 1820) * April 13 – William Quiller Orchardson, British portrait painter (b. 1835 in art, 1835) * May 1 – John Quincy Adams Ward, American sculptor (b. 1830 in art, 1830) * May 16 – Henri-Edmond Cross, French pointillist painter(b. 1856 in art, 1856) * June 28 – Petar Ubavkić, Serbian sculptor and painter (b. 1852 in art, 1852) * August 10 – Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French ceramicist (b. 1844 in art, 1844) * September 2 – Henri Rousseau, French primitive painter (b. 1844 in art, 1844) * September 7 – William Holman Hunt, English pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1827 in art, 1827) * September 10 – Emmanuel Frémiet, French sculptor (b. 1824 in art, 1824) * September 29 – Winslow Homer, American marine painter (b. 1836 in art, 1836) * November 14 – John LaFarge, American painter and stained glass artist (b. 1835 in art, 1835)References
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